Show DRAMATIC AND LYRICf WindUp of the Barrel of Money Season THE BOSTONIANS TOMORROW + Yesterdays Performances Big Bill This WeekA leas Meerotes of the Profession I the theatre wore a moody aspect downstairs I down-stairs last evening the stalls were bleak i and bare as were most of tho chairs but upstairs everything was delight enthusiasm enthusi-asm and Skvcat lure constituency of A Barrel of Money is of the Crated sort and on the elevated stations last evening the applause VMS loud and unbounded The matinee was dreadfully thin 01 II Mr E D Stair the enterprising manaRer of A Barrel of Money has a somewhat novel law suit on his hands It seems he wanted a new actorwe think he needs several of them and lie wired Miilikcn and Cortiss dramatic agents Now York to send out J P Carroll to meat him for the western tour Carroll said ho would come for his fare and his first weeKs salary in advance tome 5tO in all Mr Stair wired the money but in the meantime Carroll had incepted another engagement and the dramatic agency presuming the case was urgent sent a substitute one Pylon on Mr Stairs SSO When Peyton arrived Mr Stair refuse to have anything to do with him and Mr Peyton responded by planting buit for aarnages On this showing show-ing we would say that Mr Stair had some what the best of the case but had we been in his place we would have given Mr Pey ton a trial He could not possibly be worse than some of the material with which Mr Stair is already surrounded The Bostonians have a novelty to offer every season This year they have two one an old opera which is always welcome whenever given by a first class company Bizets Carmen which is to open the season tomorrow evening with Miss Jessie Jes-sie Bartlett Davis in the title role Exchanges Ex-changes of the east speak in a most flattering flatter-ing manner of the Bostonians performance of Carmen The cast includes the follow fol-low ing people Miss Jessie BartlettDivis Juliette Cordon Flora Finlayson Grace Reals Tom Karl W H MacDonald George Frothingham Fred Dixon and Travette Mallet Another novelty and a now one is the Bostonians performance of their latest and most popular success Robin Hood written writ-ten expressly for this company by Reginald Regin-ald do Koren and Harry B Smith This opera is not only a success in America but was produced on February oat the Prince of Wales theatre in London Englandby the Carl Rosa opera company and made a unanimous success both press and public pronouncing it the best comic opera that has been sung in England for many years the success being so great that German and Australian rights were sold at a greater royalty than any opera of Gilbert or Sulli vans repertoire Robin Hood will be sung Tuesday evening and Wednesday matinee The cast will include H C Bar nabee W H MacDonald Edwin Hotf Eugene Cowles George Frothingham Peter Lang Marie Stone Jessie Bartlett Davis Grace Reals and Josephine Bartlett Wednesday night Suzette by Oscar Veil is the bilL The performance oJ this opera will be a most welcome one In Salt Lake for it is an excellent rendition and affords ample opportunities for both clever musical and dramatic work many of its scenes being extremely tunny The cast of Suzette will be made up from some of the leading members of the Bostonians Miss Marie Stone Jessie Bartlett Davis George Frothingham A E Nichols and Fred Dixon Thursday night the last performance of I the Bostonians will be Suppers Fatinitza This opera has held a prominent place in I Bostonians repertoire and the work is 1 a true comic opera one It is brimfull of comedy com-edy and funny situations and the music is 1 exceedingly and abundantly beautiful The I following people will sing Fatinitza1 H C Barnabee Edwin Hoff Eugene Cowles Georgo Frothingham Jessie Bartlett Davis JulietteCorden Grace Reals and Tosephine Bartlett Tho production of the different operas during the Bostonians engagement will bees near perfect as possible the scenery and costumes being all new this season Each and every detail will be looked after and the Bostonians Boston-ians engagement in Salt LaKe will be as near a grand musical festival as money pains and good management can make it The sale of seats began yesterday and was quite large if The title of Hoyts Y new play A Texas Steer is certainly a misleading one said Mr Bert Dasher business manager of that attraction bveri body expects toe piece to bo a noisy farce and there is consequent surprise when it is found to be a legitimate satirical comedy dealing wittily but seriously seri-ously with the American political life I didnt like the name at first and with Mr McKeo and others urged a change Mr I Hoyt said nothing but the title remained I A Texas Steer Again at New Bedford after its first production I went to him I Said I They having an argument about it down in the office now About the title Yes Whos arguing Oh Mo Nally of the Boston Herald and Peace of theJJfcrcury theyre all at it It creates talk does iU Then said Hoyt its just the title I want and A Texas Steer it is today Theatergoers will have an opportunity op-portunity to see itA Texas Steer during the coming week it The recent announcement that Belasco and DeMille have separated and that Aan and Women is the last ulav we C S R Rcr shall ever see from their combination fountain I foun-tain pen so to speak will not be a surprise to uuyonoacquainted with the erratic Dave Wheu this young man who has experienced I i experi-enced the elevating 1 recess to a wonderful I j decree signed his contract with Mrs Leslie i Carter wo saw in it tie beginning of the one tho hand of providence the eternal fitness of things and any number of first class morals We predicted that Belasco by means of the Carter ladder would return re-turn to his original muttons and also meditated that water could not rise above its level that gilding would wear off etc As > usual we were right Upon principle ive are wont to boom San Francisco Fran-cisco productions but we have done a deal of keeping ail uijout Boiasco from the days even before ho went up like a rocket In those aforesaid days no was tho prompter of the Baldwin in Muguires time somu twelve years since sljom knowing the thrill occasioned by a lull weeka salary always ia debt and elaborately friendly where of late years he has seen lit to be ungrareiul and forgetful His engagement engage-ment by the Frohinans in this city some years ago gave mm the chance of his life and terminated the nanuuoaioutU exist once which he use lea before Though the I adaptor of several ploys noiubly La Belle Russe and rho Stranglers of Paris they did not seem to do him much food financially financi-ally Through thorn however Gus tae Frohmau detected his abilities as a stage manager and adaptor and recommended recom-mended him to his brother Daniel through whose good graces he became connected with the Madison Square theatre and there floated into prominence Of lato years however Belaseo seems to be going to the aogs The restraints of civilfzstion have evidently begun to chafe him and his descent de-scent from the sublime of the Lyceum to the ridiculous in tho matter of Carter etc is one result The withdrawal of De Millo from the partnership a natural consequence con-sequence for DeMille has neither need nor inclination for any Carter advertisement Belasco however as we started out to say is dissolving into his natural elements as we expected The above is from Music and Drama aud will not create much surprise here It has always been a mutter ot wonderment how such a tart actor as Belasco once showed himself to be when he appeared hero with Herne could have risen to the dignity of a partnership with a writer like DcMuie The Carter woman is just about Belascos level as an actor we dont know much about him as a man x + Willard the English actor talked to a Mirror reporter the other day and said some very sensible things Hero are some of them What do you consider to be the best training school for the embryo actor asked the Mirror mar Five or six years nightly observation from the front of the theatre of the best I actors in the best plays Then let him attempt at-tempt to get an engagement beginning at the bottom of the theatrical ladder of I course I What effect Mr Willard was asked has the disappearance of the stock company com-pany system had upon the English actors and the English stage J Wo find the abolition of the olcLstock company in England a very great loss to us was the prompt reply The young actor no longer has the benefit of that excellent ex-cellent training that was available TO him when for instance I was making my earliest earli-est attempts on the stage I was just in time to get the advantage of the last seven years of the provincial stock company system sys-tem Traveling companies were then few I secured a tremendous amount of experience experi-ence of various kinds having one nitrnt to play a boy like Doily in The Bachelor of Arts and the next evening to appear perhaps per-haps as M Deschapples the serious father in The Lady of Lyons or Blenk insop the comic valet in An Unequal Match It was of course difficult to play all parts equally well and I dont pretend for a moment that I did but the constant endeavor I en-deavor to obliterate ones self so to speak was of unquestionable value to one having 1 tho good fortune to experience it Like most actors who think and who have the good of their profession at heart I Mr Willard deplores the pernicious effect which long runs are having on the stage I and its plays I Long runs ho says are dreadful things They aro bad for the cctor very very bad The only way I can see to counteract coun-teract their evil influence is for a number of the theatres to devote themselves tog to-g ing matinee performauces of standard works and works of unknown writers II > A Tacoma special to the Theatrical World thus speaks of the mishap of Manager 1 Locke We opine that finances more than the weather had something to do with tho recent late arrival of the company in Ogden Og-den Eh Mr Burley The musical combination called the Juch opera company has been playing in ill fortune in this section It made the tour of Sound parts under the management of the Tacoma theatre but its ill fortune not due to Tacoma The company played in Portland the last week in January experiencing ex-periencing large houses but tho two first nights When Manager LocKe paid the expenses ex-penses and salaries of his company there ho was way behind Proprietor Post of the Tacoma theatre I went to Portland and paid arrears amounting amount-ing to S 5000 receiving a bill of sale for the scenery and other effects while the company com-pany was in Washington At Seattle Manager Helig of the Tacoma theatre took the receipts and the income from the British Columbia tour was also turned over to Mr Post With these amounts and the income from the Tacoma engagement salaries salar-ies and expenses were paid up to Sunday the 15th This left a balance of 1100 duo Locke after Mr Post had received his 5000 Manager Locke also received an advance of 1000 from Manager Hanna or the Olympia theatre as the Union Pacific re fused to transport the company to and from Olympia until payment was made in advance ad-vance The company then left Tacoma for Olympia Olym-pia Sunday night and played to small houses Manager Lockes purse ttill being very thin when the company returned to Tacoma Undaunted Locke applied to the Northern Pacific for transportation to Spokane Falls It was not granted ana he < I I j liken I 164COf1LCYrR aPRYfRLOJO6iMYl94tl163t L1 9CtIQr then wished the railroad people to take a check for fclCOO I on the Spokane theatre This was also refused und the cash was I Dually paid the company leaving Wednesday Wednes-day night at 12 oclock after a delay of I twentyfour hours The previous afternoon after-noon the members of thechorus and ore lies tia went out on a strike at the rai road wharf and refused to go further until their i salaries for the piist few days wore paid I Their want were salisiiecl before leaving How Locke raise quoalion I I money is a the only creditable answer being that Miss Juch advanced it out of her own funds rather than have the company stranded for a barer period Before leaving Tacoma Locke made Manager Man-ager Heilig a statement showing that the I I expenses of the company averaged j95i 1i per weak if I r f Augustin Daly is a man of surprises I His latest eiloit at setting New York talk i 5mf is the adaptation of the fatuous French Lcnfant ProAlglc which he has put on the I American sStage under tho name of tbo Prodigal Son The play aj most of I those who follow foreign theatricals are I aware io a four act pantomime with jot a word in li from rlrht io last but with au exquisite orchestral I accompaniment It rests with the laeiiil and pantomimic shill of the players to coil fey the plot to the audience nail with Ada lotion in the principal Partthat of tho I Prodigal Son Pierrot anil Mrs Gilbert j Isabel Irving and Mr Leclerq in tho blip portone might imagine that little would j bo left to be desired But tho spirit of I that sort ot thing is wore French than American and though the production has I bean loudly praised it is doult d whether I it will achieve a long run John Drew is k not in the cast The Now Ycrk HcraH critic say I Everybody voted the affair charming j exquisite but a goodly ramaer went home before the final fall of the curtain I 1 should think it would be splendid a little miss whispered to her escort if it could be condensed into one act and used I as a curtain raiser Then we could came late and not miss auy of the regular performance I I per-formance For ail that Pierrot is a pretty rogue and may catch the town What a pity that the Martinet couldnt have bad the role was heard more than Once iu the foyer reaps A trifle too much proesquery Mr Leclereq Still the memory of those old i clowning days iu London must have been a 1 strong temptation Phryuette was well worth Pierrots troubles if she was half so fair and graceful I as Miss Prince portrays her I Look to your laurels Pierrot The house last night pitied your borrow but admired your ruin A later New York paper says The Prodigal Pro-digal Sou was taken off af tor a five nights run Notes Professor Stephen has received the score of Sullnans Ivanhoe Stuart unison has added She Stoops to Course to his repertoire ThrvBostoniana appeared Provo last night on a guarantee of 8 0 m du bj Peter McCourt Tom Kcenes long western trap worechiin out aafi he has been compelled to e osc his season Jeflerson and Morenco close their tcivson April 18 in Chicagoovraig to Jeltursoiis increasing increas-ing feebleness cm T J Farrouol the old firm of Baiter t Farron has retired from the profession aad ia keeping a saloon in UuTalo The Old Old Story has been produced bv the Lyceum Kulcey and Cayvan are praised I but the piece is called vishj washy Wonderland had a big rush of Indies ntll children yesterday and tine line weather ib pouring tho dimes into Mr Sacsotts coffer The judge lies decided that Lillian Hussells declining to wear Tights was only a pretext and she will have to pay Daff damages for lea inp his company The Choral will have a big festival meeting tomorrow night The ladles will be ixouacd at 8a r and the remainder oJ the evening put in On the male chorus Jay Rial i otires this week frem tho business I management of Cora Tanner and will immediately immedi-ately tako ths direction o Koie Coghiana company com-pany for Augustus Pitou Richard Llanslields new national anthem will be rendered by a chorus and orchestra at tho laying of the corner stone of the new Vail l and JZvpicts building ou Fulton street Eva Curnimnjfa Mme Bioderieu William Broderick Signor Michclena aud Charles Pratt arc iraiclin through The south as the Emma Abbott Opera company under the management of John Templeton Edward E Rice has skipped out for Australia and numerous creditors wear sable colors It was very evident that Uiccs star had set when he perpetrated the Worlds Fair on a suffering suffer-ing Salt Lake public Jusc and JJratna conveys the rather surprising surpris-ing intclliKonce that J R Grismer and Phoebe Davis concluded their season last Saturday eycnin at San Jose and will not be seen on the stage any more this season Mile Rheas business m Josephine Empress Em-press of the French has been exceedingly largo Through the south her reaiepta are said to hare averaged S730 a night She is now working her way westward i W A Brady is mthirfty for tho statement I that Robert Hilliaru will not appear in Thou Shalt Not because Mrs Milliard objects to his playing the part Mr Brady ori hearing the wifes objection released Mr Hilliard Mirror Annie Russell and her husband Mr Pres bury will shortly sail for Europe Mr Pres bury sat in one of the boxes at her benefit and cried like a child ho was so much affected by the sympathetic warmth tendered to his lovely wife by the profession and the public Jeffreys Lewis is playing Stephanie de Morhi vart in Forget llc Not at Forepaaghs in Philadelphia whch is a 10 cent house There was a time when Miss Lorcis stated she would rather die than play for 10 cents but sense cometh with ago and needs must when Music and DraMa Flora VValsa wife of Mr Hoyt is with tho Texas Steer In his synopsis of ihs play the author says Note Sufficient time is supposed to elapse between acts I und II for the Branhc werrcuawr aasn vaemsno ca iraauieae family 10 get acquainted with Ihi town The man In tic box offlfc will cheerfully stop selling sell-ing tickctf to five any further information It is s Hoyifi A Texas Steer is not a steer at all It i i the story of the election of a Texas cattle mchrnun to Congress without his I j kuovloJ j There were 0000 votes in his lis trlct and hofrot em alltIj sprees With his rife and daughter he 2 i r eyed to Washington and nth ni cal upon Ms Junes audthe occurrences which ensued male up the story of the play Mare Wainwright who is the daughter of a bishop naturally has conscientious scruples igainst uml Might pexforminees Although ale has hitherto played several enpagemsnis incan in-can Francisco she wasn dated irt > hr first I Sunday performance It the California theatre last Sunday night and what is alto remarkable I remark-able the receipts were the largest she ever played to In fact it was th largest audience the California evT played to at the prccs I Jtuitic and JrClldI An old play bill dated May iii i 1 1855 has just bean brought to light It announces n play called The Falls of Clvde which is almost identical in plot with Hazel Kirke Tno Falls of Clyde is a Scotch drama but the stoy is the same as Mr Maokayos English one Mr D Oakoy played Fenner Enfield which is old Dunstan Kirke in the new di ama Tho late G L Fox played the comely part and Miss Hathaway played Ellen Enfield now Hazel Kirke George Aiken Charles Aiken George Linfjard Tom Hampton Agues Hampton and Mrs AVrny were in the cast It was done at Purdys National theatre Chatham street in the palmy days Dramatic Neics |